Palin then did a short question and answer session and was
first asked what would his next project be? He said his immediate
future was to wrap up this publicity tour with stops in Chicago,
Washington, and Boston. Then he is doing a quick documentary
series about Scottish painters for the BBC, and will spend the
rest of 2000 working on a novel. He is vaguely thinking of
another travel journey next year, and though there are no
specific plans at this time he predicted it would be
"somewhere very uncomfortable and unpleasant," then
jokingly added, "It may involve Canada."

Asked about his favorite Hemingway work he figured it was The
Old Man And The Sea. He mentioned during filming in Spain
they interviewed not the Old Man, but someone who (now
102!) had worked on the boat Hemingway used to fish from, and
even managed to trick him into talking about Hemingway's drinking
and women. Palin attributed the man's longevity to the eight
cigars a day he still smokes!

Finally he was asked about another Python movie.
Palin sighed, then said "on a scale of one-to-ten" the
possibility was "point naught naught one" (this despite
the "reunion" during the recent Monty
Python Night for the BBC last year). He thought reforming
without the presence of Graham Chapman would be just too
difficult (citing how he carried both Holy Grail and Life
Of Brian), and how would they decide who gets to direct now?
"We're all leading separate lives now," he offered,
then suggested we ask Eric Idle about it when he comes to town in
a few weeks as part of his tour.